Another reason that the age should be raised is the status of the current generation. The new generation that are or approaching the age of 18 are vastly different. Smoking may have been something that was extremely common many years ago, but that was also when many people weren’t as aware of the dangers of continuously smoking cigarettes. Many of the teenagers in the new generation may have heard plenty of the dangers of smoking through educational means such as assemblies or even activities such as the Just Say No program. With so many ways to keep the young generation away from tobacco, why does it not work nearly as well as it should? I believe the answer lies in the fact that many people around the age of 18 are more concerned with being cool and what their friends think of them rather than worrying about the consequences of tobacco being connected to their
Another reason that the age should be raised is the status of the current generation. The new generation that are or approaching the age of 18 are vastly different. Smoking may have been something that was extremely common many years ago, but that was also when many people weren’t as aware of the dangers of continuously smoking cigarettes. Many of the teenagers in the new generation may have heard plenty of the dangers of smoking through educational means such as assemblies or even activities such as the Just Say No program. With so many ways to keep the young generation away from tobacco, why does it not work nearly as well as it should? I believe the answer lies in the fact that many people around the age of 18 are more concerned with being cool and what their friends think of them rather than worrying about the consequences of tobacco being connected to their